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Zergrusheddie
2009-06-06, 08:51 PM
Arcane Channeling is a rather nifty Duskblade ability that lets you deliver a Touch Spell as part of an attack with a melee weapon. I have a few questions about this though:

1. Can you only make a single attack when doing this?
2. Does the 13th level Arcane Channeling enable you to do a Touch Spell with every single attack you make?

Any advice or information on Arcane Channeling or Duskblades in general would be fantastic.

Best of luck y'all.
-Eddie

Olo Demonsbane
2009-06-06, 09:01 PM
Short answers: Yes, and Yes.

Long answers: YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, and YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS

:biggrin:

Douglas
2009-06-06, 09:16 PM
1. Yes.
2. Yes, and it only costs one spell even if you hit 20 targets with it (whirlwind attack with a spiked chain, maybe?). Hitting the same target multiple times does not make the spell affect that target multiple times, however. If you channeled Shocking Grasp through a full attack and hit three different enemies, each enemy would take full damage from Shocking Grasp. If you did the same thing but concentrated all your attacks on one enemy, that enemy would take the damage from Shocking Grasp only once. Weapon damage would be dealt as normal, of course.

Sinfire Titan
2009-06-06, 10:54 PM
1. Yes.
2. Yes, and it only costs one spell even if you hit 20 targets with it (whirlwind attack with a spiked chain, maybe?). Hitting the same target multiple times does not make the spell affect that target multiple times, however. If you channeled Shocking Grasp through a full attack and hit three different enemies, each enemy would take full damage from Shocking Grasp. If you did the same thing but concentrated all your attacks on one enemy, that enemy would take the damage from Shocking Grasp only once. Weapon damage would be dealt as normal, of course.

This is not RAW, but RAI. RAW, there's nothing stopping you from targeting the creature more than once unless the spell specifically says so. Reference spells like Chain Lightning, which can't target the same creature more than once for an example of spells that have specific targeting restrictions.

Remember: The designers did not know they would create the Duskblade when they first made 3.5. They didn't take Arcane Channeling into account because it didn't exist.

Douglas
2009-06-06, 11:11 PM
No, I'm pretty sure that's RAW too. The exact wording is "the spell affects each target you hit in melee combat that round." You hit someone three times in one full attack. Did you hit that target in melee combat this round? Yes. Therefore, the spell affects that target. Whether you hit him multiple times or not is completely irrelevant. If hitting multiple times did cause the spell to affect the same target more than once, it would say something more like "each time you hit a target in melee that round, the spell affects that target."

Sinfire Titan
2009-06-06, 11:18 PM
No, I'm pretty sure that's RAW too. The exact wording is "the spell affects each target you hit in melee combat that round." You hit someone three times in one full attack. Did you hit that target in melee combat this round? Yes. Therefore, the spell affects that target. Whether you hit him multiple times or not is completely irrelevant. If hitting multiple times did cause the spell to affect the same target more than once, it would say something more like "each time you hit a target in melee that round, the spell affects that target."

That's an interpretation, one of many.